Sunday, December 30, 2007

Year in Review: Time.com names Top 10 Exhibits of 2007

Time.com has released its annual list of the top 10 exhibits of the entire year. I had the pleasire of viewing the Martin Puryear as well as the Kara Walker exbhibit and I must say they were absolutely delightful to view. In case you missed some or all of the exhibits please review this list below and be sure to browse on the art institution that presented these amazing shows. All photos and captions are courtesy of Time.com. Please enjoy!!

#1. Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Intersection II, 1992-1993




#2. Matisse: Painter and Sculptor
Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center

The Serpentine, 1909



#3. Veja Celmins: A Drawings Perspective
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Untitled (Web 2), 2001




#4. J.M.W. Turner
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, 1806, reworked 1808, Tate, London.



#5. Martin Puryear
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Desire, 1981



#6. Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Whitney Museum of Art, New York City

A Work in Progress, 1998



#7. Van Gogh and Expressionism
Neue Galerie, New York City

Self-Portrait, 1889, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.




#8. Howard Hodgkins: Paintings 1992-2007
Yale Center for British Art

Old Books, 2006, by Howard Hodgkin at the Yale Center for British Art



#9. Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution
The Geffen Contemporary at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Through The Flower, 1973, by Judy Chicago



#10.Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Olafur Eliasson photographed in front of his One Way Colour Tunnel at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September, 2007.

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